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VIXENISH.
a Fox's Cub. 1719 D'URFF.y Pills (1872) II. 270 The
vixen's just now earthed, see here's the Hole. 1796 Grose's
Diet. Vulgar T. (ed. 3), Vixen,.. ^ she fox, who, when she
has cubs, IS remarkably fierce: i8a8 Sporting Mag. XXII.
23, 1 must confess, I felt rather spoony upon that vixea 1867
¥; Troi.lope Chron. Barset I. xxxiii. 286 A vixen was trapped
just acroels Q. Eliz. (1908) 218 The vyzardmaker
John Owgle for xiiii Beardes. 1593 Shaks. 3 //m.K/,
I. iv. 117 but that thy F.ice is Vizard-like, vnchanging.
Made impudent with vse of euill deedes. 1615 Brathwait
Strappado (1878) 4 Bacchus cares not for outward signes a
rush. Good wine needs not the hanging of a bush. Dost
not thou vizzard-fac't ingratefull Elfe? 1650 B. Discolliminium
47 My Recreations [are].. Metamorphosing and
Vizard- making. 1678 Butlkr Hud. 111. i. 1012 Stnve who
shall be.. the most genteelly bred At sucking of a Vizard
Bead. i68a Sir T. Browne Chr. Mor. 11. § 7 Ihe old
Philosophers and great pretenders unto Virtue, who well
declining the gaping Vices of Intemperance, (etc.]..werc
envious, malicious, contemners,, .and stufft with Vizard
Vices. 1684 Otway Atheists, i, A Way to revenge my self